When I got into Bitcoin in 2013, this was the true new wild west so to speak. So what happend in the last 5-6 years?
nothing, all the things you listed here (below) are exactly the same as ever!
Governments are trying to take back control with regulations and taxes.
they have been doing it long before bitcoin and will coninue doing it long after bitcoin.
Exchanges requiring ID (KYC) etc. (hahahahaha fail)
exchanges are centralized places that are only used by traders. the rest of bitcoin users are not traders so they don't need exchanges and their KYC. they can also buy bitcoin P2P or get paid in bitcoin just like any other currency.
Developers are requested to make themselves public
almost all of bitcoin developers and major contributors are already known! again this is not changed over the past 10 years.
Previously rather unknown people. but with success in crypto, are for some reason seen as some sort of "Messiah" (binance dev for example)
anybody is free to claim to be anybody. there is at least one new idiot literary every week who claims to be an expert in bitcoin. that only makes them look bad.